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...part of Nevada (sixth largest state in the Union) is as bleak and uninhabited as the craters of the moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls, only a few more than Bridgeport, Conn. It has only three industries-ranching, mining and the care and feeding of tourists. But arid Nevada has bloomed like a garden for Norman Biltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: Mr. Big | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...William Kaufman of Bridgeport, Conn, stood up for the bad boy. It may be, said Dr. Kaufman, that the bad boy is not bad, but that he has a "brain allergy" to eggs or some other food. From among 600 cases seen in twelve years, he cited that of a schoolboy who was "unmanly," always tired, always flunking in school. Dr. Kaufman got his mother to keep a record of everything the boy ate, and also to note when he felt most tired. These times came, he found, after the lad ate eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Allergy Land | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Seattle last December, Army district engineers opened bids on contracts for generators and transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River near Bridgeport, Wash. A $6,238,373 bid by Britain's English Electric Co. Ltd. undercut closest American competition by $931,788, or 13%. But the Buy American Act of 1933 requires federal purchase of U.S.-made goods unless the U.S. price is more than 25% higher than an import...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Low Bid, No Bid | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...brother, Sam Carp, is a wealthy businessman in Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...matter where I may wander," whenever a TIME query comes to their home. In Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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